Prison Stories

The Boy Who Lived

What the gift of Harry Potter meant to this closeted gay prisoner

Chun Rosenkranz
GEN
Published in
5 min readJan 16, 2019

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Illustration: Dadu Shin

I’I’ve been caged for seven months now, and I’m beginning to forget what it feels like to be free, to be a human being. I subsist on a diet of self-pity and molded bologna smacked between sheets of white bread. Months ago, I was the son of a guru living on an ashram eating a…

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Chun Rosenkranz
GEN
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Chun Rosenkranz is a formerly incarcerated writer, social worker, and the founder of the non-profit, I’ll Be There Project. He is currently writing a memoir.